Within two years Sapphire Energy claims it will be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel per year. The new timeline for deployment of the company's "drop-in" replacement transportations fuels was unveilled earlier this month at the Military Energy and Fuels Conference in Virginia.

The timeline described at the conference ran through to 2025 with the company forecasting production of more than 100 million gallons annually by 2018;  and up to 1 billion gallons of fuel per year by 2025. Effectively, if correct, this would mean that Sapphire would be be supplying approximately 3 percent of the USA's 36 billion gallon renewable fuel standard.

"Fuel from algae is not just a laboratory experiment or something to speculate on for years to come. We’ve worked tirelessly, and the technology is ready now," says Brian Goodall, PhD, Vice President Downstream Technology, Sapphire Energy. "We’ve already successfully tested our fuel with two commercial airlines and within the next three years we’ll be producing enough to help meet the growing demands of industry and the military. Fuel from algae is an extremely logical approach to meet the needs for a green solution to our dependence on fossil fuels."